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The Shirt: A timeless Notre Dame tradition. A timeless source of dispute.
I refuse to buy the shirt this year. Scandalous, I know. Just give me a chance to explain myself though.
After the reveal, my friend was able to make this years shirt in 35 minutes on PowerPoint. Come on, Notre Dame.... you can do better!
Where is the tradition? Where are the old pictures? The historic quotes?
"Rise Above Ourselves" - where did this come from?! The Shirt is supposed to be something that brings ...

To Demetrius Jackson,
Thank you for bringing celebrity status back to Notre Dame basketball. Thank you for being in the headlines and welcoming the fame. Thank you for being the face of Notre Dame basketball. Thank you for being apart of the emergence of Dunks DuLac. Thank you for the tears, though they were hard to see, it was great knowing we had a captain that cared deeply about this team. We needed someone to help spark the fire and I thank you for taking that role. Thank you for not ...

Football is just around the corner and basketball (March Madness: the only important part) is in full swing. So, Ive decided to bring a little Brian Kelly into Notre Dame basketball.
I present to you....The stages of watching a Notre Dame basketball game as told by Brian Kelly gifs (& pictures):
*& a special appearance by boss man
Stage 1: The Day Before
Lots of nerves. I feel as though I am more nervous before the game than when the Irish are down by 5 in the last 2 ...

Lacrosse, also known as lax, is finally spreading across the nation. With the start of collegiate lacrosse starting, I thought I’d give y’all a lacrosse for dummies guide (because I know I sure needed this when I watched my first lacrosse game my freshman year of college and had no clue what was going on).
Here are the basics:
Men’s:
Faceoff - happens in the center circle between two opposing players and starts off each quarter and happens after every goal is scored.
Each game ...

Everyone’s favorite time of the year is back, back again. March Madness. Making a bracket, watching all the upsets and having basketball on 24/7 are some of the best parts of the tournament. UNLESS, you are a student. Making a bracket is a tricky situation when you are a student. Do you stay loyal and put your team in the final? Or do you have a bracket based on skill and competition, that may have your team losing in the first round?
These issues are too real when attending ...

Chad Holtz, the second member of Walk On Nation (WOPU Nation) on the Irish Basketball squad. Holtz hails from the dirty south of Louisiana.
Chad Holtz hoped around during high school, for his freshman and sophomore season he played at Tampa Jesuit in Florida, then decided that Louisiana needed to get a taste of his basketball skills, so he played a season at Rushton High School, but the sunny state of Florida missed the 6-5 Forward and Holtz played his senior season back at ...

Our lucky freshman who get to hang around the world’s greatest university for 5-years. You may notice him in a tie more than our beloved gold jersey, but Burns is just gearing up for an epic 2016 season.
Elijah Burns is another East Coast (best coast?) guy on our basketball team. He is a whopping 6-9/ 234 lb forward. Burns transferred to Blair Academy during high schoool, where he played two years at the alma mater of greats such as Luol Deng (I met his family in the elevator at the ...

Matt Ryan may not be as twitter famous as Rex Pflueger, but he does have the IN with the ND drum line. #jealous
Some fast facts about Ryan, is a 6-8 freshman from Iona Prep in New York. Though he does have an interesting journey to Purcell Pavilion. Late in his junior year Matt Ryan had hip surgery that sidelined him throughout the AAU summer 2014 season. And kept him tentative on the court during his senior year. Therefore, not giving him as much development and exposure that basketball ...

Notre Dame has had a few spelling issues in the past and a member of the basketball team has just been added to the list of Notre Dame misspellings.
Rex Pflueger, Barstool ND’s favorite basketball player and this week’s Freshman Spotlight had the unfortunate experience of being an example of why we proofread things. (I don’t necessarily follow this advice ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, but I am also not as important as Under Armour) The best part is that it took until halftime for anyone on the team to ...

With all this signing day and recruiting talk going on, I felt the need to inform everyone why choosing Notre Dame is the ONLY decision.
Junior hurdler Andrew Helmin and junior wide receiver Corey Robinson started the charity One Shirt, One Body. The campaign came after Helmin’s roommate was planning to throw away all of his used issued gear and Helmin had the idea to bring it back to his younger brother and his friends. The joy these kids had after receiving the gear gave Andrew the idea ...